The tease: David Chase speaks!

So you heard that David Chase is hanging out in France, refusing to talk about the finale? The first part's definitely true, the second part semi-true. I spoke with Chase earlier today, as we had agreed to months ago -- before he made his decision to go into radio silence after the finale -- and while he refused to outright explain what he was doing in the final scene, he did explain what he wasn't trying to do.

"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," he says of the final scene.

"No one was trying to be audacious, honest to god," he adds. "We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds, or thinking, 'Wow, this'll (tick) them off.' People get the impression that you're trying to (mess) with them and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them."

The rest of the lengthy interview will be in tomorrow's paper, and also here on the Sopranos blog.